Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope

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Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope

Subject

The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.

Description

"Lady Hester Stanhope (1776-1839)was the daughter of the earl of Stanhope and the niece of William Pitt, for whom she had kept house. Brilliant, eccentric, and romantic, she traveled to the Levant in 1810 and ultimately established herself in a ruinous convent on Mount Lebanon, where she resided among the natives for the rest of her life." BB 39n

Creator

Paul M Curtis

Source

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.
Peter S Cochran's website: https://petercochran.wordpress.com/byron-2/byron/
Graham, Peter W. Byron's Bulldog. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 1984.

Publisher

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/

Date

13 April 2014

Contributor

Paul M Curtis

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International License.

Relation

David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

Language

English

Type

Person

Coverage

English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824; 1809-1811

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Birth Date

1776-03-12

Birthplace

Chevening, Kent

Death Date

1839-06-23 at Dar Jun

Occupation

traveller

Bibliography

http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26247

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Paul M Curtis, “Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope,” ByronOnlineProject, accessed April 20, 2024, https://byrononlineproject.com/items/show/542.

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